Abstract || This article analyzes the figure of the fossil in works by Brazilian writer Nuno Ramos framed by the recent animal turn in literary criticism. From the perspective of posthumanist studies, the fossil allows us to consider life beyond the modern Man-Form, challenges notions of life itself, and asks us to create new languages and modes of reading. How is it possible to read time and space beyond the human, from the posthuman? Nuno Ramos works with the sense of touch (as a kind of reading that exceeds language) and matter (as a non-signifying language) in visual and written works that examine language and materials, such as minerals and fossils, which erode the boundaries between the organic and inorganic, the living and the dead.